Pediatric Hepatology
Impact of liver transplantation in children with inborn errors of aminoacid metabolism: The Bambino Gesù Research Children’s Hospital experience
Giusy Ranucci, Roberta Angelico, Maria Sole Basso, Silvia Maria Bernabei, Roberto Bianchi, Sara Boenzi, Sara Cairoli, Manila Candusso, Stefania Caviglia, Giovanna Cotugno, Paola Francalanci, Bianca Goffredo, Chiara Grimaldi, Daniela Liccardo, Alessandra Liguori, Daniela Longo, Arianna Maiorana, Diego Martinelli, Valerio Nobili, Rosanna Pariante, Andrea Pietrobattista, Cristiano Rizzo, Maria Cristina Saffioti, Michela Semeraro, Francesca Tortora,Giuliano Torre, Marco Spada, Carlo Dionisi-Vici
Metabolic Disease Transplant Unit Bambino Gesù - Research Children’s Hospital, Rome,Italy
Liver transplantation (LT) has been proposed as a potentially curative treatment for a growing number of inborn errors of metabolism (IEM), as it reduces the risk of metabolic decompensations and allows less restricted protein intake. However, long-term outcome data on large cohorts of transplanted patients with IEM are still missing. We report Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital experience of the last ten years in the field of LT in inborn error of aminoacid metabolism.